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CISG-online number
1223
Case name
Pork liver case
Jurisdiction
Austria
Court
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Judges
Dr. Ilse Huber (Presiding Judge), Dr. Christa Kalivoda (Judge), Dr. Helge Hoch (Judge), Hon. Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Danzl (Judge), Dr. Reinhold Schaumüller (Judge)
Date of decision
25 January 2006
Case nr./docket nr.
7 Ob 302/05wg
Claimant 1
Place of business
Serbia
Role in transaction
Buyer
Respondent 1
Place of business
Austria
Role in transaction
Seller
Case History
Pork liver case
Bezirksgericht Villach (Local Court Villach)
Austria, 06 May 2005 – 16 C 156/04b-32, CISG-online 3323
Pork liver case
Landesgericht Klagenfurt (District Court Klagenfurt)
Austria, 01 September 2005 – 2 R 343/05a-36, CISG-online 3322
affirming
Present decision declaring appeal inadmissible
Seller 1
Place of business
Austria
Buyer 1
Place of business
Serbia
Category of goods
1: Meat and meat preparations
Goods as per contract
18 pallets of frozen pork liver
CISG applicable
yes
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions interpreted
Art. 35(1); Art. 35(2)(b)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 49; Art. 74
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Relevance of local standards (in buyer’s country or third country) for conformity of the goods
This decision cites the following other CISG-online cases 2
Frozen fish case I
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 27 February 2003 – 2 Ob 48/02a, CISG-online 794
Used component placement machine case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 13 April 2000 – 2 Ob 100/00w, CISG-online 576
This decision is cited by 4
Smallmon v. Transport Sales Limited
Court of Appeal of New Zealand
New Zealand, 22 July 2011 – [2011] NZCA 340 / C A545/2010, CISG-online 2215
Pigs case
Oberlandesgericht Hamm (Court of Appeal Hamm)
Germany, 30 November 2010 – I-19 U 147/09, CISG-online 2217
Scaffold plates with hooks case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 19 April 2007 – 6 Ob 56/07i, CISG-online 1495
Blank CDs case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 12 September 2006 – 10 Ob 122/05x, CISG-online 1364
Decision published in 6
Außenwirtschaftliche Praxis (AW-Prax) (2006), 110–112 [Full text – in German]
European Legal Forum (EuLF) (2006), 50–52 [Full text – in German]
Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2006), 110–112 [Full text – in German]
Österreichisches Recht der Wirtschaft (RdW) (2006), 496 [Full text – in German]
Zivilrecht aktuell (Zak) (2006), 212 [Full text – in German]
ecolex - Fachzeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ecolex) (2006), 657 [Full text – in German]
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2006:0070OB00302.05W.0125.000
CLOUT number
752
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
060125a3
Full text, translation and abstract of decision 3
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 752 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: German
Translation of decision
Language: English
translated by
Jan Henning Berg & Daniel Nagel